TV episodes where everybody gets frozen in time

Outer Limits - Premonition (almost frozen - I mean moving very slowly)
Star Trek - Wink of an Eye (same as above)
UFO - ep name forgotten
Star Trek TNG - that one with the Romulans on the transporter pad
Star Trek TNG - the one where LaForge and Ro weren't frozen

Steven L....

Various movies too, like "The Time Travellers."

Michael C....

You forgot "Happy Days," the episode with Mork.

Default User...

The miniseries The Lost Room, effects of the Comb.

annika1980...

Bewitched says hi.

Why is it that the frozen items can't move? If they can't move, then
air can't move, so you wouldn't be able to breathe.

Steven L....

In "Wink of an Eye," and "The Time Travellers," nobody was "frozen."
Rather, they were in a time frame of reference in which time was passing
much more slowly than the time frame of reference of the
hyperaccelerated people. But time was still passing and the
normal-speed people were still moving--though so slowly the
hyperaccelerated people couldn't notice it at a glance. Just like the
hands of a clock don't seem to move either--but they do, slowly.

Now having said that, there are some really bad technical plot holes
about this: Suppose two hyperaccelerated people are trying to have a
conversation. Since the air in the space between them is still at
normal-speed, the sound waves will be propagating at normal speed (1100
feet per second), which means to a hyperaccelerated person, it will seem
to take a very long time for his voice to reach the other
hyperaccelerated person.

SoHillsGuy...

I saw "Wink of an Eye" over the weekend (was this one of the new,
remastered episodes?), and I hate this episode everytime I think too
long about it. Someone clearly didn't do any math when writing this.

How fast are the accelerated people moving in this? 100 times faster
than normal? At least, I would think, but let's stick with 100 for
now. So how long (in real time) is Kirk missing after he becomes
accelerated? A couple of hours, perhaps? That means he'd would have
been living in accelerated time for about a week (in his timeline), yet
you never get the impression he's there for more than the same couple
of hours (long enough to shag the alien woman, though).

Anim8rFSK...

Kirk would have died of hunger waiting for the turbo lift.

Worse, he was moving so fast he could sidestep a phaser beam!?!?!? I
bet that's somewhat more than 100x acceleration.

SoHillsGuy...

I agree. My guess of 100x as a speed of an acceleration is admittedly
probably a very conversative guess. In any rate, Spock had to have
spent a month fixing all the broken ship functions, yet he looks barely
bothered when he 'returns.'

Zombie Elvis...

Well in "Wink of an Eye," they aren't frozen or moving slowly. Kirk
and the aliens of the week are moving so fast that everybody else
seems frozen by comparison.

I think the TNG episodes had Geordie and Ro "out of phase" with
everyone else. In other words their time was shifted so they couldn't
interact with the rest of the world. Of course they also couldn't
interact with the air and shouldn't have been able to breathe. I just
assumed that they had a pocket of out of phase air with them when the
transporter malfunctioned.

Michael C....

If they could move, they wouldn't be frozen. If the cells are frozen
as well, breathing isn't necessary.

Default User...

In that one, things held by people were frozen, otherwise able to be
manipulated. Not sure the basis for that, but it was all fairly
mystical anyway, so I guess handwaving in whatever details fits the
author's needs is ok.

It you were in this situation, would you try to find the cause or would
you fondle the women?

Steven L....

"In Wink of an Eye," the hyperaccelerated woman Deela had some fun
kissing the normal-speed Captain Kirk, which in his frame of reference
was so fast he didn't know what it was--he thought a flying insect might
have buzzed against his face or something.

Presumably a hyperaccelerated guy could do the same thing to a
normal-speed woman; she would assume it was the wind or an insect that
brushed against her.

Zombie Elvis...

Tough choice. Of course in the TNG episode your hands would have gone
right through the women.

Anim8rFSK...

Unless they were on the floor.

Orson Wells as CitizenCain...

Twilight Zone and that Civil War episode

and if I were in a situation were everyone was frozen and I was not I would
strip everyone naked and take obscene photos of them, then pose them back
like nothing had happened.

Michael C....

I'd be more curious about the cause, and kicking myself later.

Michael C.

xeaglecrest...

UFO: #1/18 "Timelash"
Star Trek: TNG: 6/251 - "Timescape" (Romulans)

ozzy.kopec...

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Wasn't there a Time Tunnel ep. where they brought Tony? back but caused
everyone (but him) to be frozen?

Anim8rFSK...

yes

Tony managed to write a note though

Again, he was caught between moments in time.

I have no idea why he didn't run around the place, pick up supplies,

wdstarr...

Undress Lee Meriwether...

(Wait, did I just say that out loud?)

Anim8rFSK...

Hey

She's Doug's squeeze

And only a cad would suggest differently!!!!

some clothes, a ham sandwich or two, a box of grenades, the necessities,
as there didn't seem to be an reason for him not to daudle.